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Cotton Tenants: Three Families
James Agee · Melville House
Format: Paperback
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A re-discovered masterpiece of reporting by a literary icon and a celebrated photographerIn 1941, James Agee and Walker Evans published Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a four-hundred-page prose symphony about three tenant farming families in Hale County, Alabama at the height of the Great... |
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Wide-Open World: How Volunteering Around the Globe Changed One Family's Lives Forever
John Marshall · Ballantine Books; First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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For readers of Three Cups of Tea; Eat, Pray, Love; and Wild comes the inspiring story of an ordinary American family that embarks on an extraordinary journey. Wide-Open World follows the Marshall family as they volunteer their way around the globe, living in a monkey sanctuary in Costa... |
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Follow the Money: A Month in the Life of a Ten-Dollar Bill
Steve Boggan · Aurum Press Ltd; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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What do you do if you want to really understand a country, to understand its people and feel its heartbeat? You can follow the rest of the tourists, or you can take the advice of Watergate reporter Bob Woodward's source, 'Deep Throat', and 'follow the money.'Starting... |
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Walking the Nile
Levison Wood · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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The Nile, one of the world's great rivers, has long been an object of fascination and obsession. From Alexander the Great and Nero, to Victorian adventurers David Livingstone, John Hanning Speke, and Henry Morton Stanley, the river has seduced men and led them into wild adventures. English... |
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Abroad at Home: The 600 Best International Travel Experiences in North America
National Geographic · National Geographic Society
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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Take a trip around the globe - without ever leaving North America. Ideal for those who don't want to spend the time or money to travel the world, this book presents a potpourri of international experiences in the United States and Canada. Discover the villages, neighborhoods, and regions... |
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Walking Home: A Poet's Journey
Simon Armitage · Liveright; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Nineteen days, 256 miles, and one renowned poet walking the backbone of England. The wandering poet has always been a feature of our cultural imagination. Odysseus journeys home, his famous flair for storytelling seducing friend and foe. The Romantic poets tramped all over the Lake District... |
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Brazil
Dorling Kindersley Inc. · Dk Publishing, 2016.
Pages: 448
Format: Print book
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Brazil is your in-depth guide to the very best of this country in South America, publishing in time for the 2016 Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro.Whether you want to explore the streets of Rio de Janeiro or lounge on its beaches, celebrate the culture of Carnaval... |
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Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and Other Writings
Nellie Bly · Penguin Books,
Pages: 331
Format: Print book
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The first edited volume of work by the legendary undercover journalistBorn Elizabeth Jane Cochran, Nellie Bly was one of the first and best female journalists in America and quickly became a national phenomenon in the late 1800s, with a board game based on her adventures and merchandise... |
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A Taste of the Hocking Hills
MATT RAPPOSELLI · Ohio University Press
Pages: 97
Format: Hardcover
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When chef Matt Rapposelli left the National Park Service to attend culinary school in New England, he was moving from one passion to another. What later brought those passions together was a job in the Hocking Hills, southeast Ohio's stunning, wild landscape, where the restaurants he helmed... |
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Great Escapes: Enjoy the World at Your Leisure
Lonely Planet · Lonely Planet; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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Beach paradises. Luxury hideaways. Cultural thrills. The perfect getaway. Great Escapes showcases the worlds most enjoyable escapes celebrates the sheer pleasure of travel. Take time out to indulge in romantic getaways, culinary adventures, musical journeys and family holidays. Or simply... |
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Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti
Amy Wilentz · Simon & Schuster; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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The Rainy Season, Amy Wilentzs award-winning 1989 portrait of Haiti after the fall of Jean-Claude Duvalier, was praised in the New York Times Book Review as a remarkable account of a journalists transformation by her subject. In her relationship with the country since then, Wilentz has witnessed... |
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The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World with Kids 2016
Liliane J. Opsomer · Unofficial Guides; 2016 Edition edition
Format: Print book
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The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World with Kids is JAM-PACKED with useful tips, great advice, excellent discussion, and practical travel knowledge gleaned from years of Walt Disney World travel experience. It is one of the few guidebooks to Disney World that specifically addresses the needs... |
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Barn Find Road Trip: 3 Guys, 14 Days and 1000 Lost Collector Cars Discovered
Tom Cotter · Motorbooks International
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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Great collector cars are still out there--just waiting to be found!Sadly, there is very little reality in reality TV. That wouldn't be so bad except for the fact that these shows are the only TV shows for the barn-find collector car aficionado.Barn Find Road Trip is the antidote to all the manufactured... |
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A Passion for Paris: Romanticism and Romance in the City of Light
David Downie · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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"A top-notch walking tour of Paris. . . . The author's encyclopedic knowledge of the city and its artists grants him a mystical gift of access: doors left ajar and carriage gates left open foster his search for the city's magical story. Anyone who loves Paris will adore this joyful... |
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Embracing Cuba
Byron Motley · University Press of Florida
Pages: 210
Format: Print book
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"Words alone do not do Cuba justice. They depict only fragments of her mystery and beauty, her strength and fragility, her spirit and song. And so I turn to my cameras . . ." - from the introduction, Embracing Cuba "Motley's images of Cuba's people, arts, design, and public... |
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